TY - BOOK AU - Wakely,Patrick TI - Urban social housing: global health and climate change mitigation and redress SN - 9781032737065 AV - HD7287.95 .W353 2024 U1 - 363.59624 W353 2024 23/eng/20240424 PY - 2024/// CY - New York, NY PB - Routledge KW - Low-income housing KW - Public housing KW - Housing N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "Urban Social Housing stimulates and contributes to the search for strategic approaches to the production, maintenance and management of urban low-income group housing and the historical, geographic, cultural/political and economic contexts within which it is set. It also gives a brief overview of the prevailing existential threats to humanity caused by global heating and viral pathogen transmissions and examines the social, economic and legislative impact of these phenomena on settlement planning and management. The book distinguishes between Public Housing and Social Housing (in which individuals, communities, and organisations are engaged in risk- and benefit-sharing partnerships with government and management agencies for affordable urban housing), draws on the author's extensive experience in over twenty countries, and includes in-depth case studies from Northern Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America"-- ER -